Jumping the Blanket
Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towa...
Release Year: 1895
Photograph
A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, an...
Death Scene
The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's...
Trilby Dance
The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. bur...
Princess Ali
Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, s...
Transformation by Hats
Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
Paddle Dance
By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine artists, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel tak...
Hypnotic Scene
The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various humorous acts in a Tril...
Die Serpentintänzerin
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like...
The Boxing Kangaroo
A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.